Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda dig into the news with Thorne Dreyer. Topics include the Covid Relief Bill and the role of victory of the Dems in this standoff, as well as the gamble of putting the child tax credit up front.; comparing Biden to earlier presidents like LBJ and FDR; The Snow Apocalypse, Texas electrical politics and Gov. Abbott; Gov. Abbott opening Texas back up; chances of reforming the filibuster, and lots more.
Noted Democratic strategist and commentator and Rag Radio political analyst Glenn W. Smith, the director of Progress Texas PAC, is an op-ed columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, a columnist for the Quorum Report, and a former political reporter for the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post.
Dr. Roy Casagranda is a Professor of Government at Austin Community College. His areas of research include the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. presidency, political philosophy and war. He is a host on the podcast, Red Peace Machine and of the I-AMM podcast and he runs The Austin School Lecture Series.
Zoom image: Clockwise from top left: Allan Campbell, Tracey Schulz, Glenn Smith, Thorne Dreyer, and Roy Casagranda.
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at KOOP.org and Radio Free America. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement.
The show’s engineer and co-producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is a frequent guest host; and Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts.
The syndicated show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. Central) on KOOP, and is later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH. Learn more about Rag Radio
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